Overview
Deliverable D1.3 defines how ELABORATOR monitors innovation and checks whether project outcomes respond to market and end-user needs. It treats innovation as the development from partners' existing background knowledge to new foreground knowledge produced during the project. The plan connects project objectives, readiness levels and concrete deliverables through a shared monitoring unit called the Key Exploitable Innovation. For readers, it provides a practical method for making innovation progress visible and reviewable across several work packages.
Highlights
• Key Exploitable Innovations: A KEI combines one or more Key Exploitable Results with relevant Technology Readiness Levels, Societal Readiness Levels and project deliverables.
• Defined structure: Each KEI has a name, responsible Work Package Leader, related work packages, deliverables, start and end dates, and expected changes in technical and societal readiness.
• Shared definition process: The Technical Lead and Work Package Leaders define and align KEIs through a workshop and an agreed framework endorsed by project management.
• Regular monitoring: Work Package Leaders report KEI development every six months. The Technical Lead and project management review the reports, request revisions where needed and can adjust the work plan.
• Background and foreground knowledge: The first reporting cycle records the starting point, while later cycles document the development of innovation.
• Connection to exploitation: The accumulated KEI records form the basis for the final Innovation Management Report, Deliverable D1.8.
Conclusion
The method helps a large consortium avoid treating innovation as an abstract claim made only at the end of the project. By linking innovation to deliverables, responsible teams, timelines and readiness levels, it supports early identification of gaps and informed adjustments to project activities. The document sets up the monitoring process; it does not yet report final innovation results.
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